Investigates whether television should be called upon to assist in teaching young students the basic skills that they seem not to be learning very well. Discusses the introduction of television teaching in El Salvador and evaluates the work of the Agency for Instructional Television to see how it is approaching the teaching of basic skills.…

When the Columbus schools were forced to close because of the energy shortages, the schools used the media and other community resources to continue educating the district's students. (IRT)

Explores two video instructional strategies for the foreign language classroom: advance organizers and captions in the target language. A set of classroom procedures are proposed that combine advance organizers and captions to teach English as a foreign language. (9 references) (Author/CK)

Argues that the amount of attention and resources devoted to the use of technology in education and training distracts from important problems and issues that need to be addressed for effective teaching and learning. Discusses instructional television, computer-based instruction, adaptive technology, distance learning, teacher education, and the…

Describes the results of a survey of teachers who spent a year teaching in multiple-site classrooms, using a television-based distance-education system. Highlights include meeting the special challenges; the viability of equipment solutions; modifying teaching techniques for distance education; teacher remarks and recommendations; and…

Over the years, instruction has shifted from the traditional face-to-face delivery to instruction that is done from a distance. Distance education is instruction that occurs when the instructor and student are separated by distance, time, or both (WCET 2004). Some common technologies used in distance education are videotape, broadcast television,…

This handbook is designed for use by teachers engaged in interactive televised instruction in any of the following ways: via communications satellite reception, with student communication over telephone lines; via microwave systems, which allow two-way video and audio between sites; or via Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS), which is a…

Instructional, or educational, television can be an effective instructional tool if lesson plans are developed that promote interactive viewing and involve the students in a variety of integrated learning activities. Teaching methods will influence the decision to use educational television as well as the ways in which television programming is…

This paper questions both what was being tested in prior instructional media research on the educational value of film and television and the value of some of those findings. An alternative way of conceptualizing the communication process that occurs when students view an instructional film or television program is proposed, which places viewers…

Outlines the development in Finland of a course which may be followed by language teachers in their homes. (MSE)

Four factors are outlined as necessary for individualized learning and teaching programs. The implementation of these factors in the media-aided language programs, and particularly the German program, at the University of Minnesota is described. (RM)

The purpose of this study was to obtain current data on practices and procedures in the administration of distance learning programs in the areas of: (1) needs assessment; (2) student demographics; (3) telecourse acquisition procedures and sources; (4) criteria used to evaluate credit telecourses; (5) institutional approval procedures; (6)…

Designed to follow up a 1981 survey, this study assessed the usage of instructional television (ITV) in the public schools of Maryland and compared current usage with that of the 1980-81 school year. Separate questionnaires were designed for teachers, library media specialists, principals, and ITV coordinators and sent to a sample of 209 schools.…

A consortium of high schools and colleges in northeast Ohio (Coalition for the High School of the Future), which was formed to revitalize the learning experiences offered at each high school, produced a low budget videotape to generate interest in its proposals for educational reform. The primary objective of the tape was to expand awareness of…

Science Unlimited (Pennsylvania Department of Education's elementary science effort) has developed a series of television programs for use in the primary and intermediate grades. These television programs form an integral part of science lessons which emphasize direct involvement of children with materials and ideas, provide for individual and…